From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

Celebrated children's author E.l. Konigsburg has passed away at the age of 83. She died in hospital in Florida on Friday (19Apr13) after suffering a stroke.
Konigsburg began writing when her youngest child started to go to school and had her first book - Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth - published in 1967. It was quickly followed by From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler the same year (67).
She twice received the John Newbery Medal, a literary award given by the Association for Library Service to Children, making her one of only five writers to do so.
Konigsburg released 16 kids' books and three illustrated picture books. Several of her works were adapated for TV, with Ingrid Bergman starring in 1973 film The Hideaways, based on the novel From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler.

Just as every good book has to have an ending, unfortunately so do those book's scribes: children's author E.L. Konigsburg has passed away at the age of 83. The famed writer behind 1968's beloved Newberry Medal winning book From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler died on April 19 according to Entertainment Weekly. The cause of death has yet to be released.
Konigsburg did something unprecendented in 1997 when she won her second Newberry Award (for The View From Saturday) 29 years after her first — making it the longest span of time for one author to win the prestigious award. The American author was also a talented illustrator with multiple young adult books to her name.
Konigsburg may be gone, but her books like From The Mixed-Up Files Of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler will live on for generations to come.
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